• frezik@midwest.social
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    One of the things that contributed to the downfall of USENET was when people worked out how to post binary files, encoded as multi-part blocks of ASCII text. It still has piracy problems but you can just ignore that stuff.

    Ignore all the software pirates over there. Yes, sir, the ones sitting at the free bar full of top shelf liquor with strippers on each side. Yup, better not go over there.

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      In fact we’ll provide you with a handy list of all of the places you should absolutely avoid. Indexed by interest and type even!

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        I would hate for people to see this index of places with potentially illegal content. The temptation is just too high. I’ll gladly guard it from innocent users with you. My eyes and heart are ready to protect the realm.

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          Oh world, that itching in my fingers! Some FOSS client for android that you can recommend?

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        These two rules caused Usenet to be abandoned by people who were once passionate about being part of the community, and instead taken over by spammers and bots.

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      strippers? You mean the cocaine and hookers and cuban cigars, as well as all the blue label you can consume!

      You should never go to usenet, you will see unbridled speed for nzb downloads, that are blindingly fast compared to that p2p stuff. Oh and actually 0-days the p2p sites get weeks later.

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      it’s interesting bullshit if the article author actually things that binaries were the problem. What ended the usenet was google groups providing a gateway to the usenet for people who had no idea what the usenet was. Lots of dumb users posting low quality content, and eventually bots spamming all relevant groups. Binaries had been around forever, in dedicated newsgroups, and they most certainly did not contribute to the downfall of usenet, if anything, the opposite.

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          LOL I noticed just now - but it appears by @glassware explanation that it wasn’t actually my link, but a patch that would have affected every link posted to which piped reacts

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          Looks like they commited a change to Piped bot two hours ago which accidentally removed the functionality to actually change the link. Whoops!

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            Do you have a name / user id of a piped bot developer? Because while we’re at it, I think that bot should also avoid responding to itself - which would also prevent such a scenario completely.

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        Absolutely. I tried getting back into Usenet a few years ago and it was like Yahoo Answers.

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        Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

        the opposite.

        Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

        I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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          Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

          the opposite.

          Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

          I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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            Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

            the opposite.

            Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

            I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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              Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

              the opposite.

              Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

              I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

              • PipedLinkBotB
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                Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

                the opposite.

                Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

                I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

                • PipedLinkBotB
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                  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

                  the opposite.

                  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

                  I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

                  • PipedLinkBotB
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                    Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

                    the opposite.

                    Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

                    I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.